In spring, Berlin presents itself year after year as the capital of the nightingale. Thousands of the singing birds settle in gardens, parks, railway tracks and even at busy crossroads from Grunewald to Pankow and thus contribute to the biological diversity of Berlin's urban nature. Biologist Kim Mortega from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin researches the song of birds and reveals what science has so far found out about the song of the nightingale.
In the Citizen Science project nightingale research case, you can record nightingale song using the Naturblick app and make them available to our researchers. A main focus of the scientific work in the project is singing patterns: Are there regional differences in the singing of the nightingale? Which types of stanzas are used particularly frequently or seldom regionally? Are there differences in the order in which the stanzas are performed? Does the choice of a loud location influence the choice of stanza types? In a live lecture on Facebook and Zoom you will learn more about the nightingale singing and the methods the team uses to decode it.
Event information
- with Kim Mortega, biologist at Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
- The event will be livestreamed on Facebook.
- Event in German
Related Links
- Website Forschungsfall Nachtigall
- An overview of further digital offers can be found here: For Nature digital.